That's It!

The NFL's offseason workouts have come to an end. Some teams finished last week. Most teams finished this week. A few teams even finished early when coaches let their players go home with time still on the clock. Coaches and players will meet again in just over a month at training camp.

The next month-plus is a break for the players but it's mostly a break for the coaches. The players get some time off when the season comes to an end. Many players have January. Nearly every player has February. Players from a couple of teams have a fistful of days to finish up their business. All of the players have March. Things start ramping up again in April. So the players have at least two months off when their seasons come to an end. The coaches are working while the players are recovering and relaxing. The next few weeks are the only weeks in the calendar year during which coaches can relax. Maybe get away before the race starts again in late July.

The front office folk have less work than they used to have in the next month. They used to have to deal with rookie contract negotiations. The CBA made those contracts a snap. New England Patriots defensive tackle Malcom Brown is the only first round pick that remains unsigned. He was the last pick of the first round and obviously the last to sign. Under the previous CBA nearly all of the first round picks were still unsigned up to, and often into, training camp. If the owners and players got anything right in the last labor negotiations it was bringing rookie contracts into line with reality. The front offices around the league still have some work. A few still have to wrap up some rookie contracts. Some have critical and apparently difficult veteran contract negotiations in front of them. The Dallas Cowboys and Dez Bryant. The Kansas City Chiefs and Justin Houston. There are a lot of eyes on the Seattle Seahawks and what they do with quarterback Russell Wilson. If there's big NFL news in the next few weeks it probably comes from those situations. If the NFL truly has an off-season, it just started.

Next stop: Training Camps. And the 2016 NFL Season.